Odyssey (The Vampire Destiny Series Companion Book 1) (41 page)

“Yes,” she agreed desperately. Her breathy, raspy voice was like throwing gasoline on a raging inferno.  “It’s always perfect when I’m with you.”

I began stroking in earnest, setting a constant, steady pace.  Lowering my mouth to her breast, I covered her breast with my lips, my fangs grazing along her skin as my tongue swirled and pulled.

“I never knew it was possible to have this, Josephine.  To feel love and this kind of affection.  Then only to feel the pain of losing you…” I confessed.  I was furious at the desperation I heard tainting my words. “I do not like to feel vulnerable.”

She pushed me to my back against the bed, never breaking pace.   She sat astride me, her head tipped back and her mouth open in a silent cry, increasing our speed.  I groaned in pleasure at her glorious perfection, watching as her breasts swayed with her graceful movements, her long hair spilling down her back.  Unable to simply sit back, I had to feel her…every inch of her impossibly flawless skin and the friction of our flesh as it met in our coupling. I sat up and our bodies met in a rush, our mouths meeting in shuddering, unrelenting open-mouth kisses.  My hand grasped her face, pulling my lips from hers to look into her eyes.

“I was in hell last night.  You were lost to me…and I was afraid too much had happened and you had left.”  My mouth covered hers again, our tongues teasing and twisting before I drew away again, gazing back into her eyes.  For a moment, I felt as if I was staring into the deepest depths of her soul. “Vackra, it has always been you.  How can I prove my devotion to you?  I am your willing prisoner and you have shackled me with your love.”

She shook her head and coiled her arms around my neck.  “I don’t want you to be my prisoner, Stefan.  I want you to be my lover.  My equal.  My partner.”  Offering me her neck, she wordlessly spoke to me. 
“Bite me, Stefan.  Please.”

“Mine.”  I clutched at her hips and began moving her faster over my cock, my mouth on my throat.  My fangs broke through her skin and once again I was lost to her…I barely could feel her reach the crest of her orgasm.  As her blood filled me, it also enslaved me further to the bliss that was my mate.

“Yes!” Her cry brought me back to reality.  She was riding me harder, tightening and contracting around me, until I could no longer take another second of this maddening pleasure.

My hips jutted a few more times until I exploded inside of her, my victorious yell filling the apartment with my own satisfaction as we rode out the last of our violent tremors together.

Boneless and sated, I fell to the bed.  We were still for a few moments, and Josephine stretched out to lie across my chest.  My brain was still foggy from my release, and her soft giggle made a smile break over my face and I stared at her as if she had suddenly grown two heads.

“We’ve probably woken all of our neighbors.”  She blushed, her cheeks a bright pink.  She had not lost that yet.  I would miss the rush of blood to her face when she changed. 

She was worried about our neighbors?  After that complete perfection….nothing else mattered.

She turned serious and met my eyes.  “We’re stuck with each other, Stefan.  I can’t be without you.  I love you and you love me.  We need to learn to make this work.”

My heart soared and my answering smile was so wide I felt as if my face would split in two.  “We will, Josephine.”

My hands splayed across her soft cheek and our lips met; my mouth soft and gentle.  This kiss was different.  For once, we were not frantically trying to reconnect; I was pouring all of my love and adoration into this kiss.  When I lifted my lips from hers, my nose nuzzled hers and I knew I was smirking.

“As for our neighbors, I want everyone to be jealous of what I have.  To feel what I just experienced, I would gladly deal with the wrath of this entire city,” I boasted proudly.  “Come with me.  There is a shower with our name on it.  I want to get you clean so I can get you dirty again.”

“My sexy talking vampire,” she chided, sneaking a kiss from my lips.

My smile was only for her. “Always.”

Chapter Fifteen- Mind Games

“Breakfast?”  I asked as she walked into the kitchen, her hair still damp from our shower.  I had left her to dress, leaving her to try my hand at domestic bliss.  I was scrambling eggs over the stove and I had a plate on the counter with bacon stacked in neat piles on the plate.

“You can cook?  But you don’t eat,” she mumbled grumpily, plopping down on the bar stool on the other side of the island. 

Rolling my eyes sarcastically, I pushed a mug of coffee in her direction. “I may not eat, however it is not rocket science to scramble eggs and fry bacon, vackra.”  I wrinkled my nose as I glanced at the yellow mess in the skillet.  “Even though it appears to be disgusting.”

She stirred half & half into her coffee and added sugar, taking a deep sip and sighing happily.  “You’re always surprising me, Stefan.”

“Ah, stick around.  There are many things I can do that you have not had the pleasure of seeing yet.” I leered at her, my eyebrows rising suggestively.

Her mouth dropped and her thoughts were impossible to shut out.  She was thinking at the rate we were going, we should find a big bed to live in and forward all of the mail there.

“I could not agree more.  What a wonderful idea!” I placed the plate and fork in front of her with great flourish and she narrowed her eyes and began eating.  I moved to sit down beside of her and opened my laptop, opening my e-mail and scrolling through my messages.

“Anything interesting?” she asked casually as she bit into a piece of bacon.

“Mergers, acquisitions.  More work for my attorney to handle,” I replied distractedly.  My mind was being pulled into a much different direction.  It appeared Josephine would be receiving a visitor today and I was unsure how I felt about this newcomer to her life.

She was blissfully unaware of my concern as she chewed.  “How does this work?  You are a never aging vampire running a company.  Doesn’t anyone get suspicious?”

“The company is run by a board of directors, appointed by my human attorney.  He knows what I am and has ties into the vampire world.  My identity is kept hidden.  I simply make the final decisions and my attorney takes care of things for me.”  Stefan glanced at me and smiled.  “If needed, I become a long lost heir.  Humans see what they want to, vackra.”  I sighed and continued.  “There is something else.  You will have a visitor this afternoon.”

“A visitor?  Who?”  Josephine asked, her curiosity thoroughly piqued.  I glanced up at her and offered up a grin that was smug and arrogant.

“You will find out.  It should be interesting.  I will give you some privacy during the visit.”

I knew I was being extremely cryptic with her.  I was making the executive decision to let this play our organically, without my opinion to influence her.  She was unhappy and finished her breakfast in silence.  I observed her stiff shoulders as she slid away from the island, walking around to the sink and began to rinse off her the plate and loading the dishwasher.  She was preoccupied with cleaning when I silently approached, my hands reaching around and cupping the swell of her breasts in my hands and bending slightly to inhale the sweet scent of her hair.  Her response was immediate, her breathing hitching and the sponge slipping from her fingers.

My teasing hand slithered down the fabric of her t-shirt to slide inside the waist of her jeans.  My long fingers had no trouble slinking deep into her panties to gently stroke tiny circles around her clit as my lips dragged over the smooth stretch of her neck.

She gripped the counter for support, and a tiny moan fell from her lips as she widened her legs to give me better access.  Smiling in triumph, my fingers traveled along her wet folds, softly teasing her.  My own breathing increased as her arousal increased…she was so close to orgasm and her soft, mewing noises rattled my senses.  Her body tensed, signaling her orgasm and she cried out in protest when I withdrew my hand from her pants and playfully smacked her ass.

She was stunned into silence for a moment and vibrating with unfulfilled longing.  She angrily spun to face me, open-mouthed and thoroughly pissed off.  “You have got to be kidding me.  Stefan, you can’t leave me like this!”

I towered over her, my lips twisted in mischief.  “I have things to do, vackra.  Lukas is next door if you need him.  I assure you we will finish what we started.  Later.”  Pecking her on the lips, I disappeared down the hallway, chuckling under my breath as I heard her hand smack against the granite counter.

I was pulling on a pale blue Oxford shirt when I looked up to see her standing in the doorway watching me.  Her eyes darkened with desire as her eyes caressed every inch of my body…and I simply waited to see how she would react.

Gliding across the room to me, she stared up at me longingly with fluttering eyelashes and an impish, naughty grin on her lips.  Her exploring began in earnest, hands drifting across my waist, straight down my stomach. Doing my best to remain impassive, I was angry with my traitorous body as my muscles jerked and reacted to her electric touch.  She pushed my boxer briefs down low enough so that my cock sprang free, falling into her waiting hands.

This was not the way it was supposed to work.  “Josephine…”

“Shhh,” she murmured softly as she gripped me in her tiny hand, stroking me from base to tip.  She glanced up at me again, one eyebrow arched in defiance.  In that moment, I understood the game had only just begun.

Giggling, she dragged her tongue down my chest until she lowered to a crouched position with her hand still rubbing over my aching length.  I was growing harder with every twist of her wrist and when she took the head of my cock in her mouth, I released a guttural growl so powerful that my entire body shook.  It did not stop her assault; she continued to lazily roll her tongue around me, groaning in pleasure.  I lost the battle and buried my hands into her wavy hair, urging her to continue.  My breath caught when I felt my cock harden and swell, preparing myself to sink into the pleasure of my climax.

Suddenly, everything stopped.  I slipped from her talented mouth with a pop and she stood and went on tiptoe to kiss the corner of my mouth and the cleft in my chin.

Torn between unadulterated lust and the agony of unfulfilled desire, I could only stare at her and will her back to finish what she started.